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Troubleshooter 03-09-2005 10:52 AM

Arm wrestling robots beaten by a teenaged girl
 
Whole article here.

Flesh and bone triumphed in the first ever man-versus-machine battle of brawn - an arm wrestling contest between robots and humans in California on Monday.

The champion, beating all three robotic arms each in matter of seconds, was a 17-year-old girl called Panna Felsen, a high school student from San Diego, US.

The contest was set up by Yoseph Bar-Cohen at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, California, US, in an attempt to encourage the development of polymer-based artificial muscles. The aim, he says, is to improve on existing actuators - or muscles - currently used in prosthetics and robots.

The actuators in the three competing robotic arms belong to a class of materials known as electroactive polymers (EAP). These are plastics that can change shape when activated either electrically or with chemicals.

Rest of the article here.

Happy Monkey 03-09-2005 11:29 AM

While they probably ought to be stronger than a teenage girl, there is something to be said for domestic robots that aren't much stronger than humans - they'll be much safer in case of malfunction.

But for the purposes of robots designed to do risky jobs instead of humans, I think they need to beef 'em up.

Troubleshooter 03-09-2005 11:33 AM

It'll come in time. That was really only a demonstrator to get people to pony up money and resources because he was able to show a working model.

All of the great sci fi fantasies will be coming to life. Muscle augmentation, battlemechs, powered armor.

lookout123 03-11-2005 04:03 PM

skynet, VIKI, etc...

xoxoxoBruce 03-12-2005 12:06 AM

And allow airplane wings that flex to change shape instead of flaps and slots. :yelgreedy

Troubleshooter 03-12-2005 12:40 PM

Imagine how thin some things, like wings, if the actuators can be strands of muscle instead of big motors or pumps and rams and such.

smoothmoniker 03-12-2005 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
And allow airplane wings that flex to change shape instead of flaps and slots. :yelgreedy

You mean super futuristic "wing warping" like from the Wright Flyer of 1903? Kick ass!!


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